Every developer will give you a different answer. But assuming you already have a combination of talent, education and fortunate social circumstances, what else can guarantee you a bright career in IT? Is there some combination of special ingredients needed for a CV to impress employers?

If you ask Shutterstock’s Director of Engineering, the one thing that really counts is real-life development experience. “To gain real world skills, developers have to create and take control of their own curriculum,” writes Sandeep Chouksey in this latest issue, explaining exactly where it is that straight-out-of-uni programmers can begin finding gems for their CV.

Rust 1.0, open-source testing tools and more

In keeping with this line of thought, we’ve got an especially high amount of IT experiences for you in this JAX Magazine issue. First up, Rust team member Huon Wilson is taking us on a tour of the new release of Rust 1.0, still fresh off the shelves. In the testing section, Claire Fautsch and Daniel Witkowski are walking us through automated end-to-end testing and handy open-source testing tools.

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From the Big Data world, we have Pierre Fricke showing us the new Foreign Data Wrappers in Postgres. If you’re interested in FinTech, Lars Markull is predicting big things for Banking Service Providers. Meanwhile, this issue also takes a look at how to avoid hiccups when moving to a new version of Oracle SOA or a distributed version control system like Git or Mercurial. Finally, we’ve also got an overview of the big JavaScript frameworks for anyone that wants to look beyond the horizon of AngularJS – all in all, plenty of places to continue gaining new experiences.

Coman was Editor of JAXenter.com at S&S Media Group. He has a master's degree in cultural studies and has written and edited content for numerous news, tech and culture websites and magazines, as well as several ad agencies.